Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Only the educated are free.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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